Gone to Amerikay

About this book

Ciara ODwyer is a young woman raising a daughter alone in the Five Points slums of 1870; Johnny McCormack is a struggling actor drawn to the nascent folk music movement in Greenwich Village 1960; and Lewis Healy is a successful Irishman whos come to present-day Manhattan on his wifes anniversary-present promise to reveal the connection between him and them. The mystery originates with Ciaras runaway husband who disappeared after promising to join her in America and carries into midcentury when Johnny devastated by an unexpected romance and a lost shot at musical fame gets a supernatural visitor